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Maine's Total Weather: Summer 2014 Preview

Meteorologist Mallory Brooke tells us what we can expect the weather to be like this summer.

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Updated: 5:52 PM EDT May 13, 2014

Maine's Total Weather: Summer 2014 Preview

Meteorologist Mallory Brooke tells us what we can expect the weather to be like this summer.

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WEBVTT áááÑCONSIDERING THELONG, SNOWY,BRUTAL WINTERMAINERS JUSTENDURED,, SAFE TOSAY A LOT OF FOLKSARE LOOKINGFORWARD TO SOMEPAYBACK IN THEFORM OF A NICESUMMER ...BUT WHAT KIND OFSUMMER ARE WE INFOR?WMTW NEWS 8METEOROLOGISTMALLORY BROOKEHAS THE ANSWER.Remember this?Snow... ice, andeverything... not sonice."Some of us wereskiing just 10 days ago,but even those winterlovers, like myself, areready to simply dig ourtoes in the sand." Sowhat are Mainerslooking forward to thissummer? Taylor Heath- Runner "To be outsideas much as possible.To get out of the gym,off the treadmill, andout in to nature." BrianMailhot - Summer lover"The completeopposite of what we'vehad. The weather'sbeen horrible, it was arough winter. Somewarmth, somesunshine, some dryspells, that would benice" We visited theNational WeatherService in Gray to get alook into what theClimate PredictionCenter wasforecasting.Meteorologist JohnJensenius says it looksas though we'll have anormal to slightlyabove normal summerin terms oftemperature. JohnJensenius - WarningCoordinationMeteorologist, NWSGray "The ClimatePrediction Center looksat the overall weatherpattern, what we callEl Nino or La Nina. Atthis point we're in aneutral condition sothere really isn't astrong signal eitherway. Even wen we doget into an El Nino orLa Nina situation, thereisn't a strong signal forMaine and NewHampshire as far aswhether it'll be aboveor below normal."Therefore the forecastis based offpersistence, or whatit's been like over thepast 10 summers... andthat's been aboveaverage. But after 6straight months oftemperatures belowaverage, could wereally switch thepattern so quickly?John Jensenius -Warning CoordinationMeteorologist, NWSGray "For April, we'vecome up a little bit,still below normal,between 1/2 and adegree below normal.""As all summerforecast, it remains tobe seen how we do, it'sjust a slight probabilityabove normal, so we'llsee how it pans out inthe long term." As faras precipitation goes,the data doesn't pointabove or belowaverage. So as thesaying goes, if youdon't like the weather...wait a few minutes.For News 8 - I'mMeteorologist MalloryBrooke.

Maine's Total Weather: Summer 2014 Preview

Meteorologist Mallory Brooke tells us what we can expect the weather to be like this summer.